my intro: long journey toward chelation

March 18, 2007

greetings,

i've been mosting lurking for 18 months on mercury-autism list (i also have

adult disabled son) and for last 1 month on this list. time to introduce

myself.

i have 35-year history of chronic pain, including fall downstairs that

injured

neck-shoulder and repetitive stress syndrome from too much computer, etc.

five years ago, suddenly greatly increased symptoms and several new symptoms

resulted in being unable to work at all (still disabled). i initially asked

for lyme test, but it was negative elisa (i and my doc were ignorant about

lyme). i was diagnosed with fibromyalgia, severe sleep apnea, hypoglycemia,

gf and cf intolerance, allergies, etc. but after 2 years of treatments and

various protocols, was getting much worse. two years ago, having learned

more about lyme and knew that i had been bitten by a deer tick about 6 years

ago, i asked for western blot, which was positive for lyme per cdc 3 out of

3 bands.

i tried treating lyme first with antibiotics, including IV, and either no

improvement or i got lot worse from the antibiotics. finally my lyme doc

gave up on me and said she thought i was mercury toxic and that no lyme

treatment would be effective until i cleared the metals.

in oct 2005, i went to chelation doc who said i was too ill to even survive

having my amalgams removed--so catch-22. i found holistic dentist and asked

him to remove my amalgams, he also told me my immune system was not strong

enough to handle amalgam removal.

last spring i found stephen buhner's herbal lyme protocol, Healing Lyme:

Natural Healing And Prevention of Lyme Borreliosis And Its Coinfections

-0889723?ie=UTF8&qid=1174246262&sr=8-2. despite more setbacks (including

re-infected with lyme last sept 2006), with buhner's protocol i've been able

to improve symptoms and stabilize enough so that since feb 27, i was able to

have the first and second quadrants of my amalgams safely removed! that's

huge step for me. if all goes well, i'll have all my amalgams removed by end

of april and then begin cutler chelation. at this point, i plan to continue

the buhner herbs while chelating, but i always stay aware and adjust as

needed.

for anyone who may also be infected with lyme, there is a great support

i'm excited to finally be close to starting the chelation process!

gratefully,

kendra

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